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alaskanmariner [deleted] says:
Use this thread as a quick reference to identify assignments from CWD. Generally speaking, assignment numbers are the same for CWD but with an IB in front of them. Repeat or "Revisited" assignments are numbered with the number they were first assigned.
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Week 1
• IBCWD11: Selective Focus. Use selective focus to emphasize your subject in a photo.
• IBCWD12: Hands Hands are the subject.
• IBCWD13: Tells a story. Your picture tells a story.
• IBCWD14: Lines and Curves. The photo's subject are lines and curves.
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Week 2
• IBCWD21: Up Close "Macro" shot. Resist flowers.
• IBCWD22: Motion Blur. Use your time priority setting to show a subject in motion. Note: It's hard. The recommended strategy (you must try this, Real Dave said) is to move (pan) the camera with the subject resulting in the subject being more or less frozen while the background is blurred. If you give up on that, it's OK to capture motion in other ways.
• IBCWD23: Emotion. Show us a picture where the subject is displaying an emotion. (special sub-rule for Meredith only - it must be a positive emotion ;-)
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Week 3
• IBCWD31: Environmental Portrait. National Geographic style picture of somebody in their natural habitat. No Self Portraits
• IBCWD32: Wide angle. Use your wide setting to get closer to your subject. [from d.rex: in other words, zoom OUT, but get physically close to your subject...if you don't have a zoom, just get close to your subject]
• IBCWD33: Subject starts with the letter "J." Using a person's name is NOT OK.
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Week 4
• IBCWD41: The Rainbow - Take a shot full of vivid colors. At a minimum, we must be able to clearly identify at least three of the following colors in the photo: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple (I refuse to acknowledge indigo and violet as separate colors ;-).
• IBCWD42: Black & White Architecture - A building or, better yet, some interesting detail on a building. And make it black & white (no sepia, no tinting, just black, white and shades of gray). Be sure to check out the Week 3 Tidbits thread for information on b/w conversion -- DON'T just convert to gray scale! [EDIT] - Please record the settings you use for the b/w conversion and share them with the class in your photo description!
• IBCWD43: Crazy Crop - Get creative with your crop. No 4x6, no 8x10, no perfect squares...maybe 16x9, but only if that's totally new for you. Just be creative! Photo can be of anything -- just make it interesting.
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Week 5
• IBCWD51: Music. Take a picture where music is the subject of your photo. You'll find that I really don't like to give big explanations for the assignments. The point is to get your brain outside its normal stomping grounds.
• IBCWD52: Album cover. OK. with this one we take a small step outside our normal limitations. Create a fully conceived design for an album. like any cd or lp cover, it must be: a square, have the name of the artist, and the name of the album. do a search on "bad album cover" and you'll find loads of examples of themes to avoid. Still, maybe you could create something so bad it became sublime...
• IBCWD53: Cutout. Is it a cliche? Of course it is. Can we resist it? No, we can't! Show us a photo where the image is completely desaturated (reduced to black and white) except for one color.
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Week 6
• IBCWD61: Three. Take a photo that somehow involves the number three. Three trees, a shirt with the number 3 on it, whatever. But the "threeness" needs to be in the photo (don't tell me "I took it at 3:00"). No self-portraits.
• IBCWD62: Blue. The color. No self-portraits. Enough said.
• IBCWD63: Silhouette. You know...back-lighting on purpose.
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Week 7
• IBCWD71: Night Shot. These are great fun and actually a little counterintuitive. go out in the dark of night and take a picture with a looong exposure. The secret formula for digital night photography is ISO 100, F.8, 8 Seconds. naturally you need to have the camera on a steady surface or tripod.
• IBCWD72: Sidelight. The kodak manuals tell us to take a picture with the sun behind you striking the subject in the face. But we know the most interesting pictures are those where the light is coming from the side. Illuminate your subject primarily from one side.
• IBCWD73: Teamwork or Cooperation. Show us a picture where the subject is teamwork or cooperation.
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Week 8
• IBCWD81: Street Signs. Street signs are boring. So the challenge here is to create a photo of a street sign that is interesting. Make use of composition, cropping/framing, processing, etc. to create an interesting image where the primary subject is a street sign.
• IBCWD82: Religion. Enough said. No self portraits.
• IBCWD83: Art Recreation. Recreate a work of art as a photograph. If possible, provide a link to the original work for comparison purposes. The definition of "art" is up to you, but this will be more interesting if people recognize the original (let's stay away from paintings your friend did, for example). Note that you are not photographing art, you are recreating a work of art as an original photograph.
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Week 9
• IBCWD91: Reportage. Get out there and take a picture that could appear on the front page of your newspaper. In fact, if you're clever enough you should be able to predict what will be there and scoop the pros. Reportage is simply news types of pictures of some event in your world.
• IBCWD92: Landscape. How can we have gone 8 weeks without asking for a landscape? I personally think an interesting landscape is difficult to make, let's see what you come up with. Here's my two cents for an effective landscape: use a tripod.
• IBCWD93: Fill the frame. Robert Capa tells us "if you're pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough!" take his advice and get close to your subject. You know you've got it if there is no background, just your subject in frame.
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Week 10
• IBCWD42: Black & White Architecture (revisited) - A building or, better yet, some interesting detail on a building. And make it black & white (no sepia, no tinting, just black, white and shades of gray). Be sure to check out the Week 3 Tidbits thread for information on b/w conversion -- DON'T just convert to gray scale! Please record the settings you use for the b/w conversion and share them with the class in your photo description!
• IBCWD102: The Matrix - Photos inspired, in some way, by the movie The Matrix. Yep, it's my favorite movie. So there. If you've never seen it, the first part of your assignment is to rent it! If you are really, really opposed to doing so for some reason, and you don't know anything about the movie, poke around on the internet a little and you should be able to get some basic ideas.
• IBCWD103: Bodyscape - Take a photo of the human body. Any part of it. But no faces. And no clothes. Photos may contain "nudity," but they certainly don't have to (arms, legs, fingers, feet, whatever). This group contains some nice examples (they lean toward the nudity side, but many are definitely PG-rated). I am absolutely convinced that everyone can do something interesting here, regardless of whether or not you have access to a model other than yourself and regardless of what the body you're shooting looks like. Think lighting. Think shadows. Think creative perspectives and crops. Create some art!
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Week 11
• IBCWD111: The Portrait. Looking over the list I was surprised we hadn't seen this one yet. Naturally I need to add a caveat that self-portaits are forbidden. You must work with someone else to create a photo that helps the viewer to truly know the subject.
• IBCWD112: The Natural Frame. One of the best techniques for adding interest to an image is to have your subject framed by something on the edge of the image. Everyone read that again. Your subject must be framed. I'll be heartbroken and harsh with critique if we get any pictures of a wonderful frame with no subject.
• IBCWD113: Health and Fitness. Show us an image of a healthful lifestyle or fitness in general. This is the wide-open assignment where I look for your creativity!
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Week 12
• IBCWD121: Water (small scale) - Take a photo of water. Not a pond or a lake or a stream or a river or an ocean. Think smaller. Drips, splashes, etc. This is pretty much wide open...basically, if it's not a natural body of water, you're good.
• IBCWD122: Grit - Show us your rust, your dirt, your slime, your flaking paint, your broken glass. You get the idea.
• IBCWD123: 8 Seconds - An eight second exposure. That's your only requirement. 8 seconds. Not 7. Not 9. Eight. (unless your camera can't do an 8 second exposure, in which case your assignment is to do the longest exposure your camera will allow you to do).
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Week 13
• IBCWD131: Frozen Time. We’ve played with motion blur, but there is another very powerful way to convey energy, freeze motion in a way that can’t possibly just exist. High shutter speed in plenty of light will give a nice sharp image no matter how fast your subject may be moving. Images will be judged on sharpness.
• IBCWD132: Mirror/Reflection. A great, though challenging, compositional element is the mirror. Use reflections to complement your subject. Anyone doing a self-portrait in a mirror will be tagged “phoned in.” All other reflections are fair game.
• IBCWD133: Dance. A wonderfully visual, high-energy activity. I expect this one to be a real challenge because just like dancing itself, it sounds easy but getting a good coherent image will require creativity and forethought.
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Week 14
• IBCWD141: Abstract. From wikipedia: Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way. You are free to create your abstraction entirely in-camera, in post-processing, or as a combination of the two.
• IBCWD142: Sky. It's that stuff up in the air. Sometimes it's blue.
• IBCWD143: Square Foot. The entire content of your photo must be 12x12 inches (~30x30cm). What? I'm talking about the entire frame. So, first...your photo must be cropped square (non-square images will be removed from the pool). Second, if you enlarged the photo to 12x12, it would be a life-sized photo. Am I making any sense yet? Perhaps an exmaple. Let's say your subject was an 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper (boring...don't you dare do it) - that's less than 12x12, so there would be some space around the piece of paper. Now let's say your subject was a person. People are bigger than 12x12, so you might have a head and a shoulder. Or maybe a couple feet and ankles. Get it? Bottom line: if you blew it up to 12x12, it would be life-sized. Obviously, I don't expect perfect precision on the whole 12x12 thing...but if it's obviously 20x20 or 5x5, I'll boot it from the pool. Get as close as you can to 12x12. The goal of this assignment is to alter the way you look at things. Footnote: Please, no photos of rulers.
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Week 15
• IBCWD151: High key. The "key" of an image describes the nature of the tones presented. In a High key image most of the tones will be brighter than middle gray. Bright background, bright subject, and the dark tones take on a supernatural power to highlight what you want to show.
• IBCWD152: Visual Joke or Pun. So many of us play with this each week. Make us laugh with your image.
• IBCWD153: Hometown Postcard. We play with design and text again as we create a postcard for our hometowns. Can you do better than the folks who have cards on those wire stands at the souvenir shops? Here’s your chance to show us your pride in your home town! Tag with cwd153.
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Week 16
• IBCWD161: Beautiful Water - Photos of natural bodies of water. Allowed: oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, etc. Not allowed: water in cups, dripping faucets, etc.
• IBCWD162: "The Street" in B&W - Your portrayal of life on the street. Photos must be black & white.
• IBCWD163: yin-yang - This one is open to your interpretation! From the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: In East Asian thought, the two complementary forces or principles that make up all aspects and phenomena of life. Yin is earth, female, dark, passive, and absorbing; it is present in even numbers and in valleys and streams and is represented by the tiger, the colour orange, and a broken line. Yang is heaven, male, light, active, and penetrating; it is present in odd numbers and mountains and is represented by the dragon, the colour azure, and an unbroken line. Together they express the interdependence of opposites.
• IBCWD71: Night Shot Redux. These are great fun and actually a little counterintuitive. go out in the dark of night and take a picture with a looong exposure. The secret formula for digital night photography is ISO 100, F.8, 8 Seconds. naturally you need to have the camera on a steady surface or tripod.
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Week 17
• IBCWD171: Justice. It means so many things to so many people. Express the concept of Justice to all of us; surely we are your jury.
• IBCWD172: Green. I refuse to bracket you on this one. Show us what you can do.
• IBCWD173: Light in the frame. The Kodak guides from the 70’s will tell you to put the sun behind the photographer, shining on the subjects face. This invariably results in pictures where the subjects are squinting into a bright vacation sun. Your challenge is to present an image where a light source is in the frame. The light in your image does not need to be the sole source. Realize having a light in your image may freak your exposure meter out. Have an idea of the image you’re after, then execute it. Don’t be satisfied until you achieve your vision.
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Week 18
• IBCWD181: Technology - It's a huge part of our lives...it's everywhere. But can you make an interesting image based on it? Snapshots of iPods laying on the kitchen table probably don't cut it.
• IBCWD182: Perspective - Things that are close are big. Things that are far away are little. Yes -- that's an over-simplification. But you get the idea, right?
• IBCWD183: Magazine Ad - We're due for another design assignment, don't you think? Choose a product (real or imaginary) and create the ultimate magazine ad. You must use a photo taken this week...add text and other graphics as you see fit. Since your image (in theory) will be used in a magazine, it must have the appropriate aspect ratio -- something along the lines of 8x11. I'm not dictating an exact size (magazines vary), but it certainly shouldn't be square and it shouldn't be wider than it is tall. Have fun! Let's see how professional your ads can look!
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Week 19
•IBCWD191: Cooking. I see lots of pictures of food all around flickr, but really not many of people cooking. All you pun masters can stop thinking now, This assignment should have food being prepared. I hope all of you realize we are building amazing stock photography portfolios. Everyone wants a picture of cooking in their kitchen, and if they don't the showrooms do.
•IBCWD192: Landscape with a foreground element. The French have a wonderfully obscure term for this technique - but I can't think of it "repussoir" maybe. It has to do with pushing. Anyway, landscapes can often be a bit boring, putting something in the foreground really helps the viewer get into the image. Be aware that your foreground element should not impede the viewer, but help them.
•IBCWD193: Flora. We've all been seduced with those beautiful pics of amazing plants. They're easy to love, and there will always be crowds of people telling you how wonderful they are. Here's the trap: An interesting picture of a plant must do something different than we've already seen. I'm not sure how to be more helpful. Be creative, show us plants in an amazing new way.
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Week 20
•IBCWD201: Text - The subject of the photo must be text (letters and/or numbers in any language). The text must be photographed, not added in post-processing.
•IBCWD202: Spheres - This one is going to be difficult. It probably won't be too hard to find something spherical to photograph, but your job is to somehow make it interesting. No points for cleverness...the thing you photograph should actually LOOK like a sphere in the photo (i.e. don't shoot the ground and say the Earth is a sphere; don't shoot the sun or the moon which look like circles). Also, no eyeballs.
•IBCWD203: Diptych - Take two related photos and present them side-by-side as a single entity. How the two photos relate is up to you...this one should really test your creativity. If you're not familiar with diptychs, just search Flickr. Here's a random example I just found.
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Week 21
•IBCWD211: Vanishing point: Converging parallel lines that move away from us appear to converge at the horizon in the classic "vanishing point" phenomenon. Even though the lines are a fixed width apart from each other, they appear to get closer together the further they get from the camera. Thanks Chris! Manipulating, or at least being aware of the vanishing point is a powerful compositional tool.
•IBCWD212: Art Recreation Redux. I've been dying to try it again, and now is the time for Art Recreation Redux, our old friend from week 8, I said then we should hit this again during the spring, and here we are!
•IBCWD213: LOVE. It's spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to LOVE. Show me the love, baby!
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Week 22
•IBCWD221: Eyes - It is said that the eyes are the window to the soul. I'm not really sure what that means, but it's cool, right? For this assignment, let's focus on the eyes. Just to be clear -- the photo must include at least one animal eye (yes, humans are animals). No needles. No hurricanes.
•IBCWD222: Dark - Last week we had LOVE. This week, we'll try to balance that out. Show us your best dark photography. Get a little morbid, perhaps. Get a little goth. Lets all get depressed together, shall we?
•IBCWD223: U2 - You all did such a great job with my favorite movie, let's see what you can do with my favorite band. You've got 25+ years of material to inspire you. No rules other than that your photo must be in some way inspired by the band U2.
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Week 23
•IBCWD231: Competition. teamwork was a great success, but now it's time to turn the tables and get a bit more adversarial.
•IBCWD232: Surreal. We've played on the abstract jungle gym, now it's time to take a dip in the surreal swimming pool: From Wikipedia"Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization, in order to evoke empathy from the viewer." If you incorporate the elements of collage, all the elements do not need to be shot this week, though the main should.
•IBCWD233: Low Key. The opposite of High Key, this image will use darkness and shadow to stress the subject. The few light areas will carry great weight in these images. We're building on Dave's Dark theme, but now technically and not philosophically.
•IBCWD23bonus: Album Cover. One of my favorite contests has just opened. Our local radio station, KBCO, creates an album each year of tracks recorded when artists come through town. The proceeds go to charity, and the album generally sells out on the release day. I've submitted a few times, and I've learned this: they hate photography. Can we change their minds? Can you gain everlasting fame by winning the KBCO Studio C Album Cover Contest? tag with cwd23bonus. Here's a link to all the info you need: www.kbco.com/pages/studioc-coverartcontest.html. basically, it must be square, have the KBCO logo (available from the link above) and say "Studio C Volume 19" This is one of the most creative groups of people I know, We can crush this competition!
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Week 24
•IBCWD241: Collage - Collage is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. You may create your collage however you choose, but it must include at least one new photograph.
•IBCWD242: Magic Hour - In photograhy, the Magic Hour (or Golden Hour) is the time right around sunrise and sunset. Please take a few minutes to read this article on the topic. Your assignment is to take a photograph that takes advantage of this magical time of day.
•IBCWD243: Toys - Photograph one or more toys in an interesting way. Make us laugh. Or not. But make it interesting. Photos of children playing with toys are NOT allowed.
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Week 25
•IBCWD251- Photographer's Choice. I know we come here for the creative assignments, but we see so many examples of people having trouble with the idea. Here is your chance to be outstanding! It's also everyones chance to participate. Create whatever you like, but make it amazing.
•IBCWD252- The color Red. As suggested in the official Assignments Sugggestion Thread by FadderUri, we've seen blue and green, but never red! Red is a very powerful color, a little bit may go a looong way. Passionate and hot, this color can speak volumes.
•IBCWD253- Commerce. It's such an important part of our lives, and we all participate in it just about daily. Can we create amazing pictures of Commerce?
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Week 26
•IBCWD261: Noise
•IBCWD262: Silence
•IBCWD263: Textures - Make us want to reach out and touch your photo, to feel the texture.
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Week 27
•IBCWD271- 3 of a kind. Your picture will have three of something in the frame. We shouldn't need to puzzle it out, let the strength of the three elements be the anchor.
•IBCWD272- Hot. We're all feeling it, let's not fight it, but celebrate it. Hot Hot Hot!
•IBCWD273- Negative Space. Comes from the official assignment suggestion thread from Melody. Negative Space. Here we let the empty areas of our image convey the impact of the image.
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Week 28
•IBCWD281- Smoke. The beautiful swirls and twirls of smoke aren't always that easy to catch on camera. Take something spectacular. (suggestion from sazztastical)
•IBCED282- Fantasy. You know, faeries and dragons and dungeons and stuff. (suggestion from evaxebra)
•IBCWD283- The Moon (suggestion from cagedbirdy)
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Week 29
•IBCWD291- Fatigue. Are we all feeling it? that insidious sapping of will and strength. Take these feelings and express them with an image, show us what fatigue looks like.
•IBCWD292- Beauty. Is this some sort of trap? surely beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but can you show it to us in an image? I'm really hoping this is the assignment that stretches peoples creativity this week, be outlandish in your interpretation.
•IBCWD293- Agriculture. The corn is high, and outside of harvest, now is the perfect time to get some images from the garden or the farm. it's such an important part of our lives, but something many of us are so removed from.
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Week 30
•IBCWD301 - The headless human form: Take a photo of the human body. No heads allowed in the shot.
•IBCWD302 - Sunrise/Sunset: We have a lot of these shots in the pool, but we've never had an assignment that mandated them. Now we do.
•IBCWD303 - Book Cover: Photograph and design the cover for a fictional novel. You make up the title and author and you provide the photography. Must include at least one photo taken this week. No headless humans, sunrises or sunsets on the cover. :-)
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Week 31
•IBCWD311- Unprocessed. This comes to us from the Official Suggestion thread from [Collin] . Your picture must be exactly what comes out of the camera. Nop cropping, no color work, no shenanigans. We will allow resizing for flickr, and you may spot your images to remove any dust specs.
•IBCWD312- Industry. Cybergabi had this wonderful idea. I leave it to you how you want to show us industry, I'm hoping for the comically creative to the sublime.
•IBCWD313- Spirituality. As a wonderful contrast to assignment 2, We spin you around 180deg and have you express spirituality. This is not necessarily a redux of religion, but certainly could be.
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Week 32
•IBCWD321- Numbers. Take an interesting photo of a number. You can find some good (and some not so good) examples here.
•IBCWD322- Self-Portrait With Camera. We've all seen the lazy self-portrait where the photographer points his camera at a mirror and clicks the shutter button. The challenge here is to take a photograph of yourself taking a photograph of yourself...and find a way to make it interesting.
•IBCWD323- Dr. Seuss. Photos in some way inspired by Dr. Seuss (from the CWD Audit Group suggestion thread)
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Weeks 33 & 34
•IBCWD331 through ISCWD338- Photo Essay. This week you may post as many as 8 images that support a coherent theme. I think a minimum of 5 will be necessary to really explore any subject. Please upload your images from start to finish in one go. Tag with ISCWD331 to ISCWD338 (if you go that far.)
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Week 35
•IBCWD351- Man Ray. Initially suggested by cybergabi, begged-for by Rachel.::.K, and enthusiastically responded-to by several others. You can find out more about Man Ray HERE. For this assignment, you may either try to copycat a Man Ray photo or you may take an original photo inspired by his style. All submissions must be black/white.
•IBCWD352- Poetry. Include the words of a poem in your image. The photo itself should be inspired by the poem. The words may be added using your photo editing software of choice, or you may photograph them. Major bonus points for writing an original poem for this assignment. (Thanks to 4inthehouse who suggested "words, poetry, lyrics on a picture.")
•IBCWD353- Triptych. We did diptych back in Week 20. Now we'll try our hands at triptychs. Take three photos and edit them together to present them as a single submission to the pool.
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Week 36
•IBWCD361- The Bulls eye. There are so many rules that beg to be broken, this week we will concentrate on those images where the subject of the photo is in the center of the image. Your job isn’t to just create an image that breaks the rule, but one that’s good because the rule is broken.
•IBCWD362- Transportation. As a metaphor, as a literal idea, show us transportation in our modern world.
•IBCWD363- Deserted. Take photo of an area that we typically associate with crowds when it’s empty.
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Week 37
•IBCWD371- Sepia. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepia_tone. Not every photo lends itself to this treatment. Thanks to Tara for the suggestion.
•IBCWD372- Orange. Hey...it'll be October by the end of the week. Let's see some orange.
•IBCWD373- Shadows. Sometimes photo-lighting seems designed to strip interesting shadows right out of the shot. Instead, play with them. Use shadows to enhance the photo, or to frame the subject in an interesting way, or use the shadows AS a subject. (suggestion taken word-for-word from Chronicity)
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Week 38
•IBCWD381- Art Supplies. We haven't done an awful lot with product style photography, and it's high time we started. Make a still life of art supplies.
•IBCWD382- Landscape. This is such a basic part of every photographers photographic experience, I just can't imagine how we don't assign this one more. I tried to add an interesting caveat, but don't want to limit you.
•IBCWD383- The Cutout. I just went back through our history and see we haven't done one of these since the first assignment in week 5. No matter how I try to look away, I just love these images! If you need instructions I'm pretty sure there's a topic explaining how to do it. These are images where just one color is left in a b&W image.
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Week 39
•IBCWD391- Black and white portraits (no self-portraits). Black and white makes the portrait all about the subject's face and the play of light and shadow. (suggested by Chronicity)
•IBCWD392- Feet. Let's stick to the human kind. (suggested by .tara.)
•IBCWD393- Intentional/Artistic Blur. suggested by Cybergabi)
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Week 40
•IBCWD401- Magazine Ad. I really love the results when we do a bit of design work, and so I am going to reprise one of my favorites from week 18, the magazine ad. Invent a product, or use a real one, but create an ad as you would see it in a magazine. I love this assignment because it can play to all our strengths, the product shooter, the lifestyle enthusiast, and best of all, our secret designers. Your ad will be in an 8.5X11” magazine, please size accordingly for single or double page size. Our European friends may use A4 size.
•IBCWD402- Cocktails! Is this a product shot? Is it a lifestyle picture? Is it a shameful pun? I’m not sure but I know we’re going to see some great creativity. Tag with cwd402.
•IBCWD403- Fall. Philosophically I mean Autumn, but for those waaay north or south we will accept any interpretation. Tag with cwd403.
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Week 41
•IBCWD411- B&W Abstract. Just like Abstract, but in black & white. Think light & shadows...and abstract!
•IBCWD412- Country. Ya'll know what I'm a-talkin' 'bout, right? Cowboys 'n hay 'n stuff. Yee-haw! (thanks to Tara for the suggestion...but don't blame her for the explanation :-)
•IBCWD413- Board Games. Chess, Monopoly, etc. What can you do to create an INTERESTING image?
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Week 42
•IBCWD421- Cereal. I read an advertisement for a cereal restaurant the other day that said 66% of Americans surveyed said they enjoyed sex, but 94% said they loved cereal! How much do you love cereal? Tag with cwd421
•IBCWD422- Macro. We haven't done this since week 2, and it really is one of the best loved styles of photography. Get Small! Tag with cwd422
•IBCWD423- Spooky. I had to take advantage of Halloween and get something seasonal into our assignments! This is the time of year when the other side is closest and walks the streets with regular folks, express this eerie or spooky feeling! Tag with cwd423.
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Week 43
•IBCWD431- Ansel Adams. If you don't know who he is, just google him.
•IBCWD432- Circle. They're those round things.
•IBCWD433- Sex. Blame this on the whole cereal discussion from last week. Obviously (I hope) nothing pornographic. But also realize this is wide open to interpretation, so if you're not comfortable with the topic, just be creative!
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Week 44
•IBCWD441- Oh Tanenbaum. This may be a bit tricky. Nobody in their right mind is going to have a tree up this week. But can you show us a Christmas tree without actually having one?
•IBCWD442- Deck the Halls. Make an image of a homemade Christmas Decoration Cliché. Don’t use a store bought one, someone else may own the copyright! I’ll name the most cliché, but don’t feel that rules it out – Holly! What else can you show us that people generally associate with Xmas decorations? (Last year I shot an image of red berries dusted with snow. Saved a fortune on holiday cards!)
•IBCWD443- Peace on Earth. These are the images chosen by people rejecting a Christian Holiday, but who still want to send out cards. Also, this will give us a chance to be creative and stray from the overall Christmas theme. Show us image of Peace or peacefulness. Bonus points for images appropriate for Holiday cards.
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Week 45
•IBCWD451- Portrait of a Stranger. Walk up to a stranger. Ask them if you can take their picture. This is *not* a candid shot in which the stranger doesn't know you're there. This is a photograph of someone you DO NOT KNOW, taken with their permission.
•IBCWD452- Shopping. Easy enough to do, but hard to make interesting.
•IBCWD453- White. We've done blue, red, green, and orange. Now let's try white.
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Week 46
•IBCWD461- Rembrandt Lighting. The first, and most difficult, assignment is inspired by the Dutch Masters exhibit. I had heard about Rembrandt lighting, and what a Master he was, but I never truly understood it until seeing this exhibit. Rembrandt was unbelievable at using light to highlight the subject of his portraits. Your assignment is to create a portrait using Rembrandt Light. A simple definition is given here at wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt_lighting
I believe their definition falls a bit short. Yes, use a key light and a reflector, and if you can get the triangle of light fantastic, but what I noticed most was the three to four stop difference between the face and the rest of the image. Use a masterful application of light to create a portrait Rembrandt himself might sign his name to.
•IBCWD462- Upside Down. I hope I’ve commented before that a photo becomes instantly more interesting when it shows us something the eye cannot normally see. Motion blur, Macro shots, Cutouts, and my personal fave, wide angle. But there’s another way I saw demonstrated at the Met that is often overlooked. Upside Down. The featured picture from the early 20th century showed a view out a third story window of people walking down the street. I became more interesting the instant the artist displayed it upside down. The viewer is disoriented, uneasy. The work succeeds. Create an interesting image by turning the image from your camera upside down.
•IBCWD463- Palindromes. Not so much inspired by the museum visit as by Thanksgiving I’m reminded of one of my favorite Palindromes: Desserts is stressed spelled backwards. Help relieve the stress by giving us an image of a wonderful dessert.
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Week 47
•IBCWD471- Quadtych. We've done diptych and triptych, now let's try our hands at a quadtych. Four photos -- all taken this week -- combined into a single image. The arrangement and relationship between the photos is up to you.
•IBCWD472- Self-Portrait. I know many of us do these on a regular basis. But for some people, this may be a new experience. If you are working on a self-portrait project (like 52 weeks or 365 days), you may NOT use one of your project selifes for this assignment! Take something just for us!
•IBCWD473- Fire. We did smoke a while back...let's try fire! Please don't burn anything down!
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Week 48
•IBCWD481- Smells. We’ve created wonderful images where we tried to create something tactile with our macro photography, our pictures of grit. This week let’s invoke another sense: smell. Create an image so vivid it channels the smell of the subject.
•IBCWD482- Winter Activity. If you’re living in the northern hemisphere we’re getting buried under a fluffy blanket of snow (some more icy than others) and this is our chance to shoot a great winter activity. For our friends in the southern hemisphere, I figure you can fake something, not all winter activities involve snow.
•IBCWD483- Inspired by Bresson. Henri Cartier Bresson is one of my favorite 20th century photographers. He shot portraits, reportage, and some amazing perfect moments. He gives us the idea of “the decisive moment.” Create an image inspired by his style, or something more like an homage.
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Week 49
•IBCWD491- Holiday Humor. It just wouldn't seem right not to include a holiday-related assignment this week. For this one, make us laugh!
•IBCWD492- High Key/Low Key Diptych. We did High Key in Week 15, Low Key in Week 23, and Diptych in Week 20. For Week 49, let's combine all three to create a diptych with one high key photo and one low key photo.
•IBCWD493- Widescreen. Create an image fit for the theater (or your new HDTV). All images must be WIDE. At a minimum, they must have a 1.78:1 aspect ratio (that's HDTV-style), but you can go as wide as 2.35:1 (a common movie format).
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Week 50
•IBCWD501- Zing. Dictionary.com has a few definitions, but we shouldn't get too hung up. vitality, animation, or zest.
•IBCWD502- Unfettered. We see quite a bit of fettered, so now the opposite.
•IBCWD503- Indignant.
BONUS
•IBCWD501bonus- Levi's. Show us your 501's.
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Week 51
•IBCWD511- Ice. Photos of frozen water, please.
•IBCWD512- Animals. Of the living, non-human variety. Pets are OK, but let's shoot for quality!
•IBCWD513- Fauxtobooth. Take 4 photos pretending you (or another person/people) are in a photobooth. Arrange them in a vertical strip. (Inspired by/stolen from the Fauxtobooth group).
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Week 52
•IBCWD521- Clones! Looking through the list I couldn't believe we hadn't seen this one. yes it's a bit photoshop intensive, but you can knock out a really simple one with a bit of planning and even the most rudimentary PS skills. Take a photo where the subject appears several times. you may recall my Matrix inspired photo:
."Matrix 1" by Protagonist [?]
•IBCWD522- Homework. A great stock shot is waiting to be taken!
•IBCWD523- Litter. Can you make a great photo of an ugly subject? A poor image wouldn't affect anybody, take a great image that makes the viewer want to clean up the mess!
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Week 53
•IBCWD531- Cubism. I can't say I'm sure how to capture the cubist style in a photograph, but I'm looking forward to seeing you all figure it out. :-)
•IBCWD532- Roads. Many of us drive on them every day. Can you take an interesting photograph of one?
•IBCWD533- Rock & Roll. Joan Jett loves it. You get to photograph it.
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Week 54
•IBCWD541- Eureka! That amazing moment when you make a discovery or figure out some problem. The legendary story is of Archimedes discovering how to measure the volume of the king's crown as he was getting into his bath. He sees the water rise as he gets in, realizes he's seeing displacement, and shouts Eureka! Show us a moment of revelation.
•IBCWD542- Tools. We use them everyday. They are allegedly what set us apart from the animals. Show us the tools you use to change your world. Tag with cwd542.
•IBCWD543- Swirl. I think there are some very fun possibilities here. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
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Week 55
•IBCWD551- Soft. Open to interpretation.
•IBCWD552- Socks. Apparently girls are really into socks. This is what my girlfriend tells me, anyway. :-)
•IBCWD553- 3D: I have no idea if we can pull this off, but I think we should give it a whirl. If we fail miserably, blame Brigid (SaylaMarz) -- it was her idea. :-) The idea here is to take two images that, when placed side-by-side, will appear as a single 3-dimensional image when you cross your eyes properly! Here's an example:
I believe the idea is to take the exact same shot twice, moving your camera a few inches in between the shots. If you look at the example above (with your eyes normal), you can see that the position of the background has moved slightly between the two images, but everything else is the same.
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Week 56
•IBCWD561- Chinese New Year. This may pose a challenge for some, but I know everyone can come up with something. (excuse my typing, Dave please edit this!) Take a picture of anything associated with the lunar new year: rats, tangerines, dragons, lions, parades. A bit of research may help. Ring in the year of the Rat with Class with Dave and Dave!
•IBCWD562- Giants and lilliputians. Two weeks ago we learned how to do clones, this week lets mix it up by using those techniques to place your subject in a different setting taking advantage of scale.
•IBCWD563- Blind shooting/Robert Frank. Robert Frank is a very important 20th century photographer. Google his work and you will see that he took amazing street photos. We all know that putting a camera up to your face makes people wary or uneasy. What R.F. would do is wear his camera around his neck, shutter release in his pocket, set the camera to f8 and focus 15 feet ahead. Then shoot when he saw something interesting. Try that if you can, but this week show us an image inspired by Robert Frank shot without looking through the viewfinder.
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Week 57
•IBCWD571- Glitz. (noun) Ostentatious showiness; flashiness.
•IBCWD572- Pink. Like red, but lighter.
•IBCWD573- Valentine Design. It's been a while since we had a design assignment! Your task is to design a photo-based valentine, complete with text, etc. You may choose to present only the front of the card, or both the front and the inside (as a diptych). Another option would be to show us the front and then tell us what the inside says in the photo description -- it's up to you. The only real rule is that the card must include a photo.
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Week 58
•IBCWD581- Movie Poster. Yes there are tools out there to help you, and if you must, feel free to use them. Create a movie poster for a real or imagined movie. It would be nice if it's from Dave and Dave Studios of course.
•IBCWD582- Class. This means so many different things, I'm not going to constrain you at all, but any viewershould be able to figure out it's a picture about "class."
•IBCWD583- Photographer's choice. In my classes I give more and more Photographers choices as the students become more adept, and begin exploring their own creativity. My only constraint is that we have no self portraits for this assignment. We see plenty of those as it is.
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Week 59
•IBCWD591- Books. A book (or books) must be a prominent part of the photo. Suggested by Tara.
•ICWD592- Outdoor Portrait. Take advantage of natural light and take a portrait outdoors. No self-portraits.
•IBCWD593- Out of Context. Take a photo of some object where you wouldn't normally expect it to be. A toothbrush in the toilet, a banana in your CD ROM drive, etc.
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Week 60
•IBCWD601- Excess. Nothing exceeds like excess, and this week we want to see what that means.
•IBCWD602- Museum. Dave's success with his urban show got us thinking about seeing art on the walls. Our's, someone else's, someone else enjoying ours... This assignment may make you go to a museum or gallery.
•IBCWD603- Erin Go Bragh! Take a photo for your stock portfolio for St. Patrick's day. Green gets you going in the right direction, but there's a lepruchaun's pot full of Irish cliches to play with.
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Week 61
•IBCWD611- Secrets.
•IBCWD612- Sugar.
•IBCWD613- Slices. Like a diptych or triptych, but you can choose how many photos to use. The photos should be arranged as a series of long/thin "slices". I'm not crazy about this particular image, but I'm showing it here just as an example of a possible layout. In this case, I used 7 images...
"04.13.07 - 184/365: Rainbow Boy" by d.rex [?]
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Week 62
•IBCWD621- Book Cover. We’ve done the book cover assignment before, but this will be different. I love how we all come up with such different ideas for these assignments, and so this week I want to test that. Design a book cover for Paolo Coehlo’s “The Alchemist.” This book is well loved around the world and I figure many of you know it. For those who haven’t read it, here is a link to the Wikipedia page: "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_%28novel%29&quo...
Will your cover have a favorite scene? A literal interpretation from the book? Something a bit more obscure? With a well defined objective I’m eager to see how many different interpretations we come up with.
•IBCWD622- The Blues. Not just the color, oh so much more.
•IBCWD623- Abstract Redux. As a guideline, let’s use minimal post processing. Shoot something that shows the world in a different way.
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Week 63
•IBCWD631- Clouds.
•IBCWD631- Set of Stamps. This was a suggestion (7 months ago!) from dogfaceboy. I think it's a cool idea. Design a series of 4 to 8 postage stamps. You choose the theme, but the goal should be to use several related images like you'd see in a postage stamp series. Make them look as much like real stamps as you can! Present the collection as a single Flickr image.
•IBCWD631- Digital Art. Pretty much open to interpretation. Start with a photograph, but create something distinctly digital. In other words, it shouldn't look like a "normal" photo by the time you're done with it.
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Week 64
•IBCWD641- Zoom. Help me develop a series of three images that illustrate how a scene changes as your lens get longer. We see this in photo instruction books, but I have yet to see it executed very well. For this assignment you will stand in one spot, shoot three images changing the direction of the camera as little as possible. How much you change the focal length is up to you, but my goal is to use the best series of three in my actual classes to illustrate what zoom does as a lens gets longer. With your permission of course. I recommend 30-300mm. Evil Mighty Acorn created a great series of images illustrating how depth changes as focal length changes, check it out here . She moved to keep the scene the same, you will stand still and change the scene dramatically.
•IBCWD642- Light bulb. A light bulb is the subject of your image. Or figures prominently in your image. Tag with cwd642.
•IBCWD643- Kaleidoscope. Just a bit of post processing, mirror your image 3 or more times to create a bizarre kaleidoscope effect. I can’t find a good example, but look in a kaleidoscope and you’ll see what I mean. Let me now if this is too cryptic.
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Week 65
•IBCWD651- Spring. The season. Those of you not currently experiencing Spring will have to be a little creative...sorry. :-)
•IBCWD652- Splash!
•IBCWD653- Zig-Zag.
•IBCWD65bonus- VIDEO! Flickr added video! How cool is that?!? If you are set up to do so, add a short video to the pool that documents something related to one of this week's assignments! Woo-hoo! :-) this is totally optional...even more optional than everything else we do here. :-)
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Week 66
•IBCWD661- Ink.
•IBCWD662- Stripe.
•IBCWD663- Inspired by REM. I really lost faith with this band back in the early 90's, but when they come out and say "Yep, we lost our way..." I've got to respect that. Show us something inspired by REM.
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